5 Minutes With Cosmo's Bachelor of the Year: Chris Van Vliet

We squeezed in a quick chat with the most datable dude of 2011 and got him to tell us about his ideal GF, the craziest emails he got from chicks during this contest, and what he plans to do with the dough.

My dream girl is someone who's down to earth, but most of all, I look for someone who wants to have as much fun as I do. Now, I'm not talking anything super crazy here like jumping out of a plane—although if she wants to jump out of a plane, I'd be down for that! I just want a confident girl who is comfortable in her own skin.

What do you want women to know about you?

I want them to know that even though I'm an entertainment reporter on TV (for WOIO, Cleveland's CBS 19), which is a pretty cool job, I'm really just an average, down-to-earth guy who likes to hang out. And if anything, I actually have kind of a nerdy side, too—I like to go fishing on weekends and I get really into watching pro wrestling.

What's the craziest/funniest email you got from a girl during this contest?

That one's easy! I got two that made me laugh out loud. The first was from an inmate—I was certainly not expecting that. But the funny thing about that one is that I don't even know what it said. In order for inmates to contact people who aren't in jail, you have to go through a process of allowing them to speak with you—we're talking entering passwords and stuff. So I didn't do any of that, but I was weirdly flattered that she'd actually emailed me in the first place! And the second funny one came from a girl who emailed me nine times in a row. She seemed really into it, because she peppered me with so many variations of "Hey, how are you?" I eventually did respond to her.

I'm going to donate all of the $10,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland, which is a cause that's near and dear to my heart. At the beginning of the Bachelor contest I decided that if I won the money, it'd be perfect to [donate it].

So what's the first thing you do once you're back in Cleveland?

This weekend, I'm going to the Browns/Seahawks football game with some friends.